The Asteraceae - Daisy Family
Daisy Family - Asteraceae
See also the Yellow-flowered species in the Asteraceae.
Canary Islands Candleplant Kleinia neriifoliaNative and endemic to the Canary Islands. Common and widespread in a wide range of habitats.
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Kleinia anteuphorbium
Native to Morocco. A sprawling plant with succulent stems, sometimes found spreading over walls from gardens in urban and suburban areas.
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Argentine Fleabane Erigeron bonariensis
(Hairy Fleabane) Introduced from South America. A weed of cultivated places and roadsides.
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Annual Buttonweed Cotula australis
Introduced to Europe from Australia and New Zealand with imported wool products. Slowly spreading in the Canary Islands as a pavement weed in built up areas.
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Canary Islands Marguerite Argyranthemum frutescens
Native and endemic to the Canary Islands, though most often found where planted as an urban ornamental in Fuerteventura.
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Purplish Phagnalon Phagnalon purpurascens
Native to the Canary Islands and North-west Africa. Found in barrancos and rocky places.
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Broad-leaved Cudweed Filago pyramidata
Native from Macaronesia eastwards through western Europe and the mediterranean Region to Central Asia.
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Ifloga spicata
Native from Macaronesia eastwards through the southern mediterranean Region to India.
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Cardoon Cynara cardunculus
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. There are several forms of this species, with Fuerteventura plants being of one of the spiny forms.
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Slender Thistle Carduus tenuiflorus
Possibly native in the Canary Islands. Found on all of the islands, often in cultivated ground around villages and towns.
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Bolle's Desert-knapweed Volutaria bollei
Native and endemic to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Flowers cream or white.
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Tubular Desert-knapweed Volutaria tubuliflora
Native to the Canary Islands and eastward across North Africa to Egypt.
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